Faculty
Insights into groundbreaking faculty research, innovative projects, and academic thought leadership across Harvard’s schools and institutes.
Five Questions with Michèle Duguay
A Harvard scholar of music theory on how streaming services have changed the experience of music
B vitamin content of rice declines with rising CO2
A new study quantifies the global impact of declines in a single nutrient in a single crop, and hints at wider impacts.
The Market-Model University
Humanities in the age of money
Jack Szostak pursues the biggest questions on Earth
Jack Szostak’s pursuit of the biggest questions on Earth
Ellen Newbold La Motte
Brief life of a bold activist: 1873-1961
Dani Rodrik profiled by Marina Bolotnikova
Dani Rodrik’s views on trade, development, and democracy enter the mainstream.
DNA testing leads Stuart Schreiber to welcome answers
A scientist discovers his own family’s secrets.
Edward S. Steinfeld reviews Ezra Vogel’s “China and Japan: Facing History”
The parallel, perilous, histories of China and Japan
The short-term investing trap
Long-term investors fall to short-term thinking.
by Jacob Sweet
Exploring the secret lives of cervids
Ecologists aim to understand how deer form their home ranges.
Harvard study quantifies disease contributions of genetics and environment
The largest-ever study of twins quantifies the respective influence of genes and environment on specific diseases.